Simple file system over SQLite

SQLite is a very good database engine for small applications to store relational data. However, most of the time, we may still want to store data in the traditional way using a file system: having different directories with different data files saved in those directories.

This way, your data is scattered on the file system as well as a database file. May be you have already gotten used to it but I want to gather all the data in just one place. When backing up data from your Android app, it would be very nice if they are all grouped into a single database file. So why not combine the SQLite tables and the traditional file system together? This project is going to 'create' a simple file system inside a SQLite database file.

Background

As you all know, any file system needs to allocate some room to store the metadata about the file system itself, the directories, and the files. In this project, only three tables are created. Let's have a look at the table schemas:

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